EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 21, 2001
Cruz-In draws contestants
from near and far
Students compete at Hermiston chess tourney
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Ian Murray, Chris Hendricks, Chris Hickerson, Cole Morgan, Conner Pappas.
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school students traveled to
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Mary Ann Elguezabal, Janme
Hermiston on Feb. 17 to compete
The Heppner Elementary School
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in the Chess for Success
and Mike Armato accompanied the
Tournament. Students attending
Monday between 3:30-4:30 p.m.
group.
had a day filled with at least six
and on Tuesday and Thursday
Team members included Maggie
games o f chess each.
mornings from 7:30-7:55 a.m.
Armato, Nacho Elguezabal, Bo
The Heppner team placed third
Interested individuals are invited
Foster, Chris Hendricks,Chris
out of seven other teams. "It was
to contact the school for more
an eye opener to meet so many other Hickerson, Bryan Holland, Matt information or to join in the
Holland, Cole Morgan, Seth
chess players and compete with
competition.
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lone Elementary School second and third graders performed two plays for parents, grandparents and
commuiuty members on March 15. Twenty children, lead by teacher Barbara Collin, presented Pecos
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it word for word."
lone High OSSOM Club takes action
By Debbie Radie
The lone Site Council, at its
March 14 meeting, learned that 11
lone High School OSSOM Club
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Morrow County District
Attorney David C. Allen has
released the following report:
-Christy Whalen, aka
Christy Pennington, plead guilty
to possession of a controlled
substance (methamphetamine)
and was sentenced to 18 months
probation. She was also ordered
to complete a drug treatment
program and pay $434 in fines
fees and assessments.
-Rollin Ray Bradfield
plead guilty to Assault 4
(felony), Reckless Endangering
and Harassment.
He was
sentenced to 36 months probation
and 160 hours o f community
service. He was also ordered to
have no physical contact with the
victims, write them letters of
apology, complete a domestic
violence treatment program and
pay $1,559 in fines, fees and
assessments.
Blackhorse
Canyon road
now open
Blackhorse Canyon road is now
open with no detour, the Morrow
County Road Dept, has reported.
members are planning to attend the
state OSSOM conference in Hood
River in April.
It was reported that Ashley
Carmack has e-mailed all of the
state representatives concerning
the school funding issue. The local
group plans to conduct a letter
writing campaign.
The council learned that lone
was not awarded the "Umatilla-
Morrow Small and Remote Schools
Consortium" grant. Although no
explanation was given as to why,
it is believed there was competition
for the funds. lone Schools Principal
Mike Stuart anticipates applying
for other grants in the near future.
Levels testing is scheduled in
April and a committee plans to have
snacks for the students on those
dates.
Dean Robinson presented his
action research plan. Robinson has
some recommendations for changing
testing to help parents, teachers and
students get more value from the
levels testing from year to year.
The Vtel equipment is set up now
in Dale Holland IPs classroom.
Videoconferencing capabilities in
"real time" are now a reality.
The council learned that Justin
Key was the first third grader to
recite the Preamble to the
Constitution o f the United States
from memory
Teachers Terri Clay and Barbara
Collin went with a group of students
to a writer's workshop at Eastern
Oregon University. They reported
that students' works may be
published in an anthology.
The elementary school was to
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present two plays in the cafetonum
The girls' basketball team
achieved first place for for the state
1A Dairy Farmers Association
academic achievement recognition
and for the entire state. The boys'
basketball team was in the top 10.
The boys also went to state in
basketball and earned second in the
district.
The fourth-eighth grade band
marched in the Heppner St. Patrick’s
parade on Saturday, March 17.
Teacher Darlene Marquardt's first
period web design class and fifth
period eighth grade tech-ed class
are doing a community service
project called Virtual-lone. They
are writing a web page for the city
o f lone as a service to the
community. This page can be viewed
at <http://ioneoregon.com>
Brad Bumght made the second
team all star team at basketball state
finals.
The first-ever Heppner Cruz-In
was held Saturday in conjunction
with the St. Patrick's Parade. The
St. Paddy's Cruz-In drew 37 entries
with participants from as far away
as Aloha.
Following their appearance in
the parade, the cars assembled in
the Les Schwab parking lot and an
adjacent lot.
Everyone, including a visiting
leprechaun, had the opportunity of
voting on a favorite car.
Winner of the People's Choice
award was Joe Roberts of Aloha
with his 1949 Ford Tudor.
The "Leprechaun's Choice" was
Bud Englert's 1935 Chevrolet four-
door sedan.
Booster Club
hears gym
report
The Cardinal Booster Club met
Monday, March 5, at the lone High
School library.
Monica Swanson reported the
work is almost finished on the high
school gym. Some sign work is
being done and the OSAA
sportsmanship sign needs to be put
up. Another board will have to be
made for the state academic Dairy
Farmers of Oregon award the girls
basketball team won.
The current date of the booster
club meetings is a conflict for
several individuals. It was agreed
to change the date to the second
Thursday of each month.
The club voted to use $600 for
the Cardinal Booster Club
scholarship fund this spring. The
scholarship committee may decide
the number of recipients.
Each of the senior all-star football
and basketball players who plays
in the summer all-state teams will
receive $25 from the club for their
ads in the programs.
Swanson will order shirts for the
club to sell during the 4th o f July
celebration. Members suggested
selling the past T-shirts and ordering
long sleeve shirts for this year.
Teacher Dale Holland explamed
the BFS Program he is currently
using in his weight training class.
He and Steve Schaber recently
attended a 'Bigger Faster Stronger"
conference. His class is a total
conditioning class. The goal of the
program is to teach individuals to
be the best they can be, focusing
on academics, goal setting,
communicating and gaining
confidence in themselves. It was
agreed to have students demonstrate
the program at a future meeting.
The club voted to reimburse
coach Dennis Stefani $364 for
expenses for the first night the boys
stayed at the state tournament.
Track coach Del LaRue requested
money to help pay for the new track
warm-ups, which should arrive soon.
The club agreed to pay the balance
due on the warm-ups.
The next meeting of Cardinal
Booster Gub will be Thursday, April
13.
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Tom Wolff of Heppnerwon the
antique class with his 1948 Willy's
Jeep.
Randy Henderson of Hermiston
took the Classic Car award with,
his 1970 Dodge Challenger.
Charles Reiber of Hermiston won
the custom class with his 1947
Chevrolet pickup.
All entries were awarded a St.
Paddy's Cruz-In dash plaque.
The event was sponsored by Les
Schwab Tire Center and the St.
Patrick's Committee.
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The family of Joy Ann Wells
would like to thank the hospital
staff and doctors. Father Condon
and the Catholic Church Altar
Society, the American Legion,
friends and neighbors for the
cards, prayers, kind words and all
their help.
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I would like to thank everyone
for your support throughout the
Elks Hoop Shoot. I had a lot of
fun, met lots of people and shot a
lot o f free throws.
This is an awesome program
put on by the Elks for kids. The
Heppner-Elks supported me for
all of the competitions and I really
appreciated it; thank you Heppner
Elks!
Thank you to my friends and
family and members of the com
munity for your words o f encour
agement, signs, cards, flowers and
balloons.
Thank you,
Megan Orr and Family
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We would like to thank the fol
lowing who came to our aid dur
ing Bob’s illness; for the fast re
sponse of the lone and Arlington
ambulance crews; to Dana, Loren
and Nathan Heideman who came
down from the hill; to our neigh
bors Lorene Griffith, Kristy and
Gene Crowell, Linda and Gerald
Wilson, and Maureen Krebs for
the food. A special thanks to Jacob
Taylor for the hospital visits. We
appreciated the cards and phone
calls wishing us well. “Thank you,
Kristy,” from Tess.
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The H eppner High School
cheerleaders wish to thank every
one who supported their fund
raiser of the Ewe-Do-Bingo dur
ing the St. Patrick’s Celebration.
Special thanks to the Ken Bailey
family for loaning us their awe
some pet lamb, Jake, to “do” the
honors. Congratulations to Bruce
and Patti Lindsey for winning the
$300, and thanks, Jannie Allen, our
hnejudge.
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The H eppner C ham ber o f
Commerce would like to take this
opportunity to thank the many vol
unteers, businesses, organizations
and residents who pitched in and
helped with the Oregon Dept, of
Transportation (ODOT) Adopt-a-
Highway litter pick-up effort prior
to the St. Patrick’s Celebration
weekend.
The effort, cooperation and
assistance of the organizations
who did litter pick-up on the high
ways entering Heppner is appre
ciated. These include the Morrow
County Employees Association,
the Heppner High School Honor
Society, the Heppner Elementary
School staff and the Red Apple
Market.
As a result of the collective
effort of everyone, our town had
a nice appearance, both for our
selves and for our visitors and
guests during the celebration.
Additionally, the support and
assistance of the City of Heppner,
Stop Oregon Litter and Vandal
ism (SOLV), the Heppner Ga
zette-Times, Heppner TV, and the
Heppner maintenance section of
the Oregon Dept, of Transporta
tion was instrumental in the suc
cess o f the litter pick-up that pre
pared our tow n for the St.
Patrick’s Celebration.
The next Adopt-a-Highway lit
ter pick-up will be prior to Memo
rial Day weekend. Please watch
local media for the announce
ments of date, time and procedure.
Again, thank you, everyone.
Sharon Harrison
President,
Heppner Chamber of Commerce
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